MOJO's Top 50 Albums of 2009

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LIST SUMMARY

List Rating: 79

Based on 274 album ratings

Genre Breakdown:

Folk (6), Alternative Rock (5), World (4), Indie Rock (4), Experimental (3), Indie Pop (3), Electronic (2), Indie Folk (2), Jazz (2), Hip Hop (2), Rock (2), Soul (2), Drone (1), Singer-Songwriter (1), Ska (1), Experimental Rock (1), Alt-Country (1), Garage Rock (1), Ambient (1), Alternative Pop (1), Progressive Metal (1), Chamber Pop (1), Blues Rock (1)

1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

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Released: Jan 20th, 2009
Genre: Experimental

Overall Rating: 94

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2. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Released: Apr 14th, 2009
Genre: Folk

Overall Rating: 81

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3. Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter

Released: Sep 22nd, 2009
Genre: Alternative Pop

Overall Rating: 75

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4. The Horrors - Primary Colours

Released: May 5th, 2009
Genre: Alternative Rock

Overall Rating: 80

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5. Tinariwen - Imidiwan

Released: Jun 29th, 2009
Genre: World

Overall Rating: 77

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6. Bob Dylan - Together Through Life

Released: Apr 28th, 2009
Genre: Folk

Overall Rating: 65

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7. Florence + The Machine - Lungs

Released: Jul 6th, 2009
Genre: Indie Pop

Overall Rating: 79

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8. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport

Released: Oct 20th, 2009
Genre: Electronic

Overall Rating: 86

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9. Madness - The Liberty Of Norton Folgate

Released: Sep 29th, 2009
Genre: Ska

Overall Rating: 81

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10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

Released: Mar 31st, 2009
Genre: Indie Rock

Overall Rating: 79

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11. The Cribs - Ignore the Ignorant

Released: Sep 8th, 2009
Genre: Indie Rock

Overall Rating: 67

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12. The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin

Released: Jun 9th, 2009
Genre: Folk

Overall Rating: 80

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13. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

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Released: May 26th, 2009
Genre: Indie Folk

Overall Rating: 89

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14. Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement

Released: Sep 8th, 2009
Genre: Soul

Overall Rating: 73

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15. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

Released: Jun 9th, 2009
Genre: Indie Rock

Overall Rating: 55

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16. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

Released: Jun 9th, 2009
Genre: Experimental Rock

Overall Rating: 89

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17. The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage

Released: Jan 26th, 2009
Genre: Experimental

Overall Rating: 72

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18. Fever Ray - Fever Ray

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Released: Jan 13th, 2009
Genre: Electronic

Overall Rating: 82

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19. Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions

Released: May 26th, 2009
Genre: Drone

Overall Rating: 88

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20. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers

Released: May 19th, 2009
Genre: Alternative Rock

Overall Rating: 81

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21. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns

Released: Apr 7th, 2009
Genre: Indie Pop

Overall Rating: 76

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22. The xx - xx

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Released: Oct 6th, 2009
Genre: Indie Pop

Overall Rating: 89

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23. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

Released: Aug 25th, 2009
Genre: Alternative Rock

Overall Rating: 73

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24. Vieux Farka Toure - Fondo

Released: May 26th, 2009
Genre: World

Overall Rating: 85

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25. Alasdair Roberts - Spoils

Released: May 5th, 2009
Genre: Folk

Overall Rating: 73

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26. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone

Released: Mar 3rd, 2009
Genre: Alt-Country

Overall Rating: 81

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27. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - I Speak Fula

Released: Sep 14th, 2009
Genre: World

Overall Rating: 85

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28. Vetiver - Tight Knit

Released: Feb 17th, 2009
Genre: Folk

Overall Rating: 69

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29. Mastodon - Crack The Skye

Released: Mar 24th, 2009
Genre: Progressive Metal

Overall Rating: 83

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30. Staff Benda Bilili - Tres Tres Fort

Released: Mar 24th, 2009
Genre: World

Overall Rating: 90

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31. Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens - What Have You Done, My Brother?

Released: May 26th, 2009
Genre: Soul

Overall Rating: 80

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32. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers

Released: Sep 8th, 2009
Genre: Indie Rock

Overall Rating: 87

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34. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)

Released: Jun 30th, 2009
Genre: Alternative Rock

Overall Rating: 73

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35. Portico Quartet - Isla

Released: Oct 9th, 2009
Genre: Jazz

Overall Rating: 75

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36. White Denim - Fits

Released: Jun 22nd, 2009
Genre: Garage Rock

Overall Rating: 68

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37. BLK JKS - After Robots

Released: Sep 8th, 2009
Genre: Experimental

Overall Rating: 73

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38. Sonic Youth - The Eternal

Released: Jun 9th, 2009
Genre: Alternative Rock

Overall Rating: 77

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39. Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band - Between My Head and the Sky

Released: Sep 21st, 2009

Overall Rating: 75

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40. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light

Released: Jan 20th, 2009
Genre: Chamber Pop

Overall Rating: 82

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41. Mos Def - The Ecstatic

Released: Jun 9th, 2009
Genre: Hip Hop

Overall Rating: 79

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42. Doug Paisley - Doug Paisley

Released: Jan 27th, 2009
Genre: Folk

Overall Rating: 50

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43. Dead Man's Bones - Dead Man's Bones

Released: Oct 6th, 2009
Genre: Indie Folk

Overall Rating: 73

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44. Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information, Vol. 3

Released: Apr 14th, 2009
Genre: Jazz

Overall Rating: 80

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45. Cate Le Bon - Me Oh My

Released: Oct 27th, 2009
Genre: Singer-Songwriter

Overall Rating: 67

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46. The Black Crowes - Before the Frost...Until the Freeze

Released: Sep 1st, 2009
Genre: Rock

Overall Rating: 85

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47. Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream

Released: Jan 27th, 2009
Genre: Rock

Overall Rating: 62

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48. Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid

Released: Feb 10th, 2009
Genre: Blues Rock

Overall Rating: 67

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49. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II

Released: Sep 8th, 2009
Genre: Hip Hop

Overall Rating: 87

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50. Max Richter - Waltz with Bashir

Released: Jan 6th, 2009
Genre: Ambient

Overall Rating: NR

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